Acetabular Distraction Technique for Severe Acetabular Bone Loss and Chronic Pelvic Discontinuity: An Advanced Course

Acetabular bone loss, and specifically when it is associated with a chronic pelvic discontinuity, presents a difficult clinical challenge at the time of revision total hip arthroplasty. Most centers have advocated the use of noncemented constructs in an effort to achieve biologic fixation. The authors prefer noncemented fixation with use of the acetabular distraction technique in conjunction with modular porous metal augments for the treatment of severe acetabular bone loss and an associated chronic pelvic discontinuity.